{"id":33490,"date":"2019-02-27T19:23:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33490"},"modified":"2019-02-27T19:23:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T19:23:00","slug":"irans-zarif-signs-armenia-deals-continuing-duties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33490","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Zarif signs Armenia deals, continuing duties"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1458766\/middle-east\" readability=\"56\">\n<p>\nIranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif signed two agreements in Tehran with Armenia, television footage showed, continuing his duties as Iran&#8217;s top diplomat after President Hassan Rouhani rejected his resignation.<br \/>In a ceremony broadcast live on state TV, Zarif signed two agreements to expand cooperation between Iran and Armenia.<\/p>\n<p>\nRouhani rejected Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif&#8217;s resignation on Wednesday, the government&#8217;s official website said.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I believe your resignation is against the country&#8217;s interests and do not approve it,&#8221; Rouhani wrote in a letter to Zarif, the website said.<\/p>\n<p>\nMeanwhile,\u00a0Zarif thanked Iranian officials and the nation on Wednesday for their support after his resignation, saying he has always been committed to serving the country.<br \/>In an Instagram post, Zarif said &#8220;as a modest servant, I have never had any concern but elevating the foreign policy and the status of the foreign ministry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif signed two agreements in Tehran with Armenia, television footage showed, continuing his duties as Iran&#8217;s top diplomat after President Hassan Rouhani rejected his resignation.In a ceremony broadcast live on state TV, Zarif signed two agreements to expand cooperation between Iran and Armenia. Rouhani rejected Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}